Irish Times Accuses Pro-Israel Activists of Shutting Down the Conversation

Indeed, this formulation offers a convenient get-out for the Irish Times when it comes to addressing its and particularly Eamonn McCann’s vicious treatment of Israel (and in McCann’s last outing, the Jewish religion). Clearly, judging by the anti-Israel output of the Irish Times (and many other media outlets), the accusation that Israel’s supporters have successfully “muzzled” many Israel critics doesn’t hold any water.

As for the reference to the “Israel lobby” in the U.S., the Irish Times is echoing the rantings of other anti-Israel obsessives who believe that the hidden hand of Jewish or Zionist power has its grip on the U.S. body politic.

We are all anti-Semites now, including US secretary of state John Kerry. That’s according to a clutch of ministers in Binyamin Netanyahu’s cabinet, plus a mixum-gatherum of colonial settlers, super-Zionists and most US senators.

McCann plays rather loose with the truth when he claims that Israeli minister Naftali Bennett had “come within an inch of smearing Kerry as an anti-Semite.” In fact, Bennett was referring to the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement as anti-Semitic rather than Kerry himself.

As for the charge by the Irish Times that Israel’s defenders use the anti-Semitism charge for their own nefarious ends, the public criticism against one MK by the Anti-Defamation League for implying that Kerry’s actions may have “anti-Semitic undertones” is a good example of why the Irish Times’ charge is false.

That Eamonn McCann and the Irish Times felt it necessary to clutch at the very few and unrepresentative examples they could find to fit their distorted formula speaks volumes for their motivations. By doing so they have conveniently changed the topic away from the real conversation – McCann’s and the Irish Times’ continued demonization of Israel.

I watched the 4corners Program on ABC T.V. The missing element was why the small vulnerable group of religious Jewish families needing Israeli soldier’s protection. Hebron is a very sacred city to most Jewish people as it is the burial place of Abraham, Sarah his wife and both Jacob and Joseph were also buried there. As a result these families will put up with isolation for themselves and their children. Now the Moslem majority have also taken Abraham on as an important figure in their religion. They are dete

the irish have shrunken brains owing to their compulsive drinking and resulant alcoholism. the highest rate of bipolar disorder anywhere on earth is, yes, you guessed it, ireland. the irish are also inculcated over centuries by the church to be virulent Jew haters. anti=semitism is in their mother’s milk. such as it is. they are still fans of hitler and especially germany. horrid people.

Why doesn’t the EU concentrate on the UK which occupies the Falklands, Gibralter and N. Ireland; Turkey and Greece where Turkey occupies Cyprus, India and Pakistan fighting over Kashmir, Russia taking over part of Georgia and now inserting its authority into the Ukraine, China and Taiwan in which China wants Taiwan back and China interfering with the Japanese regarding the 2 islands belonging to Japan; I could go on and on; but this is a case of Anti-Semitism throughout the world who only picks on Israel. The Palestinians are another group of Arabs that are Jordanian citizens and should be moved to Jordan. the Arabs occupy 99.9% of the Middle East and soon the Muslims will occupy all of Europe; the Ottoman Empire, at last, will conquer Europe; the EU should be worried who is in their back yard and the emigration of Muslims into their countries. they will suffer the same fate of having jihadists in their countries and be overrun by them. I hope it happens to come back to bite the Eu in the face by having Muslims overrun their countries. That will be pay back to what they and the US are doing to Israel. The US has a Muslim president, Barack Hussein Obama, and John Heinz Kerry, Sec. of State who hate Israel. If you look at Israel, Israel will prevail in the end and all the other countries will fall by the wayside. G-d is watching what the EU and US are doing to Israel and he is mad.